Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Plato

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

E. J. Hobsbawm

He said myths and mythology wasn't to give meaning to life but to give us an experience of life, an experience of vitality in being alive.

Joseph Campbell

One person's car is another person's scenery.

Jonathan Ive

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

Maurice Sendak

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Havelock Ellis

Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove.

Christopher Marlowe

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian r?gimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Simone Weil

You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.

Heston Blumenthal

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Steven Tyler

When twilight drops her curtain downAnd pins it with a starRemember that you have a friendThough she may wander far.

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of th

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

Vaclav Havel